Is anyone else still playing this game? I found a rapid way to get to 27, but then slowed way down again as the adventures are just killers and fights that I can do hurt a ton because the mob either misses me completely, or critically succeeds and wallops me. I've gotten my speed up from rippertech, but at a big sacrifice to my power. So, while I have a 95% success chance, it takes me a lot more hits to kill the creature and therefore gives it more chances to hurt me.

Haven't played for a long time but, considering I recently started running my Rippers campaign again, I'm planning to start playing again soon. Goodness knows how much money I've accumulated thus far _________________Conan by Monolith Board Games LLC
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I'm an inventor as well and found that creating the various rippertech does help if you know what stat you are really missing. In my case, upping my speed (can currently max it out around 54) makes some of the hunts easier, so long as the mobs don't hit me because they always seem to crit me when they have such a weak chance of hitting. Int is nice for some things, but Speed, Power and Courage are what you really need. I suspect that if I boosted my courage more, I would lose less heart and more often gain prestige from one of my lodge upgrades, but I'm really hurting on speed and power for adventuring. So I'm stuck doing an occasional hunt to try and kill a vamp or demon dog.

I'm an inventor as well and found that creating the various rippertech does help if you know what stat you are really missing. In my case, upping my speed (can currently max it out around 54) makes some of the hunts easier, so long as the mobs don't hit me because they always seem to crit me when they have such a weak chance of hitting. Int is nice for some things, but Speed, Power and Courage are what you really need. I suspect that if I boosted my courage more, I would lose less heart and more often gain prestige from one of my lodge upgrades, but I'm really hurting on speed and power for adventuring. So I'm stuck doing an occasional hunt to try and kill a vamp or demon dog.

I can only do 2 ingredient recipes for now. Takes a lot of Prestige to open up the larger spaces. Right now I'm focused on increasing the number of items I can equip as I prefer the bonuses that I don't have to keep refreshing to the ones that disappear after a certain amount of time.